An historical and geographical description of Formosa, an island subject to the emperor of Japan
Subtitle: giving an account of the religion, customs, manners, &c. of the inhabitants : Together with a relation of what happened to the author in his travels : particularly his conferences with the Jesuits, and others, in several parts of Europe ...
By: by George Psalmanaazaar ...
Edition: 2nd ed. / corr. with many large and useful additions, particularly a new preface clearly answering every thing that has been objected against the author and the book.
Series: Western books on Asia -- fiches 11,556-11,559
Publisher: Printed for Mat. Wotton ... [and 5 others
Published: 1705
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Translated from: lat
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Apologetics; Description and travel
Notes: A fabrication. The author's real name is unknown. "Psalmanaazaar ... wrote in Latin, and the main portion of his manuscript was translated by Mr. Oswald ... what was not due to his own imagination he borrowed from Varenius's 'Description regni Japoniae et Siam' (Amsterdam, 1649) or Candidius's 'Voyages'"--Dict. nat. biog.